Tech Review: The Fastrak to efficiency?

The Fastrak to efficiency?

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In his latest instalment, the lang cat's Mark Polson revisits the Sprint Enterprise Technology system promising to make onerous tasks like client report writing a whole lot easier

It is almost exactly two years since I reviewed a system called Fastrak, from Sprint Enterprise Technology. Back in June 2012, I suggested that report writing was a pain, legacy product data was too hard to get and that if a system like Fastrak could sit in the middle of all that, then it might be no bad thing. Two years on, then, and how things have changed. No? Oh. That might explain, then, why Sprint and Fastrak have been in the news recently. The sharpies at Transact took a 15% stake in the company, with their official statement saying: "Transact is looking to develop closer integrat...

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